[http://eu-geoportal.jrc.it/ INSPIRE] is a European based approach at solving interoperability issues for gespatial data. ''Join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/inspire-data INSPIRE Mailing list].''

''INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) is an initiative launched by the European Commission and developed in collaboration with Member States and accession countries. It aims at making available relevant, harmonized and quality geographic information to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policies with a territorial dimension or impact. INSPIRE intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial data infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services linked by common standards and protocols.''

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[http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE] (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) is an initiative launched by the European Commission and developed in collaboration with the EU Member States and accession countries. It aims at making available relevant, harmonized and qualitative geographic information in the domain of environmental applications to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policies with a territorial dimension or impact. INSPIRE intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services linked to common standards and protocols.

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The [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32007L0002 INSPIRE Directive] came into force on 15 May 2007 and will be implemented in [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-roadmap/61 various stages], with full implementation required by 2021.

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''The INSPIRE Geo-Portal is Europe's Internet access point for Spatial Data and Services. From there, you can search for spatial data, services, and organisations. ''

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The [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/) INSPIRE geoportal] provides the means to search for spatial data sets and spatial data services, and subject to access restrictions, to view spatial data sets from the EU Member States within the framework of the INSPIRE Directive.<ref>http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/</ref>

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=== Scope ===

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Datasets in scope of INSPIRE are ones which come under one or more of INSPIRE themes.<ref>http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/data-specifications/2892</ref>

The themes and links to more information are listed on [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/Themes/Data-Specifications/2892 the INSPIRE website]

=== The INSPIRE Components ===

=== The INSPIRE Components ===

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There are five major components:

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According to the INSPIRE Directive, View and Download services should be set up for the data which is within scope and metadata should be provided. Furthermore, data needs to comply with the INSPIRE data schemes and monitoring, testing and validation of the data, metadata and services should be executed.

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# Metadata. Well, we know that [http://www.slideshare.net/arnulfchristl/the-potential-of-metadata-geoweb-2010 Metadata is data] and so on. Intriguing topic. The current interpretation of INSPIRE clobbered metadata long enough with ISO profiles to almost kill it.

#* Discovery Services. Probably something like Catalog Services but it is as yet unclear why they should: ...making it possible to search for spatial data sets and services on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and to display the content of the metadata

#* Transformation Services. Rubbish. The original idea was that a web service would be able to transform existing data by mamber staed on-the-fly for further processing. This is usually done offline in the basement on number crunchers. ...enabling spatial data sets to be transformed with a view to achieving interoperability

# Data and Service Sharing. Licenses, copyright, all the fun stuff that prevents us from using data in our software.

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# Data Specification. The tricky bit is the harmonization of data that is need prior to setting up the actual service. This currently requires lots of transformations with GML 3.2.1 (and not enough software packages supporting 3.2.1 does not help either)

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# Reporting and Monitoring. This is more domain specfic to EU public administrations. Not clear yet whether any software will be involved in this. But the monitoring services will be of help to control things.

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The Annexes list themes that need to be made available in three stages until well into 2016 and possibly even 2019. The first themes are:

#* Download Services. Digital data served through WFS 2.0 / ISO 19142 or download packages This enables copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly;

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# (AU) Administrative units

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#* Discovery Services. Catalog Services making it possible to search for spatial data sets and services on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and to display the content of the metadata

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# (AD) Addresses

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#* Transformation Services.

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# (CP) Cadastral parcels

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# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata/6541 Metadata].

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# (TN) Transport networks

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# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/data-specifications/2892 Data Specification]. The harmonization of data that is needed to enable cross-country data sharing.

# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/data-and-service-sharing/62 Data and Service Sharing]. Licenses, copyright, all the fun stuff that prevents us from using data in our software.

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== OSGeo's involvement ==

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A complete set of INSPIRE tools and resources is available in the [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-tools INSPIRE Toolkit section].

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There is no coordinated effort at involving OSGeo as an organization in the INSPIRE initiative but many OSGeo projects are already tied into processes and the emerging INSPIRE architecture. A formal meeting of OSGeo representatives with people (from JRC) involved in INSPIRE was planned for the end of 2008 but never happened. In 2010 JRC and OSGeo joined forces to make an [http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/13847/ Open Source Mash-up at the INSPIRE conference] possible.

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== FIT/GAP analysis ==

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== OSGeo's involvement ==

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How good does Open Source GIS software fit into the INSPIRE picture? Can it be used as a software stack to build INSPIRE SDI's? It would be interesting to make a fit/gap analysis between what the INSPIRE standards require and what the OSGeo stack provides. Also, a plan could be made up to fill in the gaps (in time). The reasoning behind this is that the regular customers will not be able to make this analysis by themselves, so it would be good to have something written up. Of course this is an ongoing effort as not many of the standards are final as yet, and most are still in draft.

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Many OSGeo projects are already tied into processes and the emerging INSPIRE architecture.

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A formal meeting of OSGeo representatives with people (from JRC) involved in INSPIRE was planned for the end of 2008 but never happened. In 2010, JRC and OSGeo joined forces to make an [http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/13847/ Open Source Mash-up at the INSPIRE conference] possible.

How good does Open Source GIS software fit into the INSPIRE picture? Can it be used as a software stack to build INSPIRE SDI's?

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* Dirk Frigne

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* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]

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* [[Arnulf Christl]]

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* [[Rafal Wawer]]

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* Thomas Piechl

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* [[Wolfgang Tinkl]]

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* [[Just van den Broecke]]

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* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]

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=== What is already available? ===

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The current OSGeo-Live applications include Open Source software that is needed to implement the different INSPIRE components. In this regard, providing an INSPIRE-flavoured version of the OSGeo-Live environment could be useful to provide European data providers with some of the technological means to help them meet INSPIRE’s legal obligations. This way, both the open source and INSPIRE communities may reinforce each other. As a starting point, the [[INSPIRE tools inventory|INSPIRE tools inventory wiki page]] gives an overview of the available OSGeo-Live applications useful in the realm of INSPIRE, is given. The tools are grouped according to the [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vocabulary/tasks INSPIRE-related tasks] they support. Furthermore, the applications currently missing to meet the INSPIRE obligations and the on-going projects are also mentioned on the[[INSPIRE tools inventory|INSPIRE tools inventory page]].

Everybody who wants to contribute to this or wants to collaborate on creating an INSPIRE-flavoured OSGeoLive environment is invited to join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/inspire-data INSPIRE Mailing list] and keep the [[INSPIRE tools inventory|INSPIRE tools inventory wiki page]] updated.

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=== What is in progress? ===

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From the data providers' perspective, the [[INSPIRE data experiments|INSPIRE data experiments wiki page]] will describe example use cases that demonstrate the creation of INSPIRE compliant data through OSGeo software.

* [http://www.justobjects.nl/jo/assets/presentation/bolsena-2010-inspire/index.html Implementing INSPIRE with Free and Open Source for Geo] given by [[Just_van_den_Broecke]] at [[Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2010]]

* [http://www.justobjects.nl/jo/assets/presentation/bolsena-2010-inspire/index.html Implementing INSPIRE with Free and Open Source for Geo] given by [[Just_van_den_Broecke]] at [[Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2010]]

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=== Use Cases ===

* [http://www.prtr.bund.de German Pollutant Release and Transfer Register] Web application and OSGeo SDI for public use with [[OpenStreetMap]] data.

* [http://www.prtr.bund.de German Pollutant Release and Transfer Register] Web application and OSGeo SDI for public use with [[OpenStreetMap]] data.

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xew6qI-6wNk What is the INSPIRE Directive?] (Video)

* [[FOSS SDIC]]

* [[FOSS SDIC]]

* [[Geospatial Integration Showcase]]. This showcase aims to be an easily deployable testbed of inter-operable software and should provide a good basis for testing an INSPIRE stack. This showcase is initially targeting FOSS4G in October 2009.

* [[Geospatial Integration Showcase]]. This showcase aims to be an easily deployable testbed of inter-operable software and should provide a good basis for testing an INSPIRE stack. This showcase is initially targeting FOSS4G in October 2009.

Contents

Introduction

INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) is an initiative launched by the European Commission and developed in collaboration with the EU Member States and accession countries. It aims at making available relevant, harmonized and qualitative geographic information in the domain of environmental applications to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policies with a territorial dimension or impact. INSPIRE intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services linked to common standards and protocols.
The INSPIRE Directive came into force on 15 May 2007 and will be implemented in various stages, with full implementation required by 2021.

The INSPIRE geoportal provides the means to search for spatial data sets and spatial data services, and subject to access restrictions, to view spatial data sets from the EU Member States within the framework of the INSPIRE Directive.[1]

Scope

Datasets in scope of INSPIRE are ones which come under one or more of INSPIRE themes.[2]
The INSPIRE Directive defines 34 spatial data themes needed for environmental applications, grouped in 3 Annexes.
The themes and links to more information are listed on the INSPIRE website

The INSPIRE Components

According to the INSPIRE Directive, View and Download services should be set up for the data which is within scope and metadata should be provided. Furthermore, data needs to comply with the INSPIRE data schemes and monitoring, testing and validation of the data, metadata and services should be executed.

Download Services. Digital data served through WFS 2.0 / ISO 19142 or download packages This enables copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly;

Discovery Services. Catalog Services making it possible to search for spatial data sets and services on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and to display the content of the metadata

What is available and what is missing?

How good does Open Source GIS software fit into the INSPIRE picture? Can it be used as a software stack to build INSPIRE SDI's?

The current OSGeo-Live applications include Open Source software that is needed to implement the different INSPIRE components. In this regard, providing an INSPIRE-flavoured version of the OSGeo-Live environment could be useful to provide European data providers with some of the technological means to help them meet INSPIRE’s legal obligations. This way, both the open source and INSPIRE communities may reinforce each other. As a starting point, the INSPIRE tools inventory wiki page gives an overview of the available OSGeo-Live applications useful in the realm of INSPIRE, is given. The tools are grouped according to the INSPIRE-related tasks they support. Furthermore, the applications currently missing to meet the INSPIRE obligations and the on-going projects are also mentioned on theINSPIRE tools inventory page.

See also

Geospatial Integration Showcase. This showcase aims to be an easily deployable testbed of inter-operable software and should provide a good basis for testing an INSPIRE stack. This showcase is initially targeting FOSS4G in October 2009.